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Today in Labor History May 11, 1968: The "Night of the Barricades" occurred in Paris, from May 10-11. It started when security forces blocked student protesters from crossing the river. As a result, they threw up barricades. The police attacked them at 2 am on May 10, savagely beating them and arresting hundreds. In response to the police violence, students and workers called for a General Strike on May 13.

#Miami #Florida #labor #unions #newspapers

"Content from the Miami Citizen (1938-1949), Mami Labor Citizen (1949-1956) and the Labor Citizen (1956-1959) have been digitized and are live in Chronicling America! Miami’s Central Labor Union decided to begin publishing a newspaper in March 1918, due to lack of publicity in the Miami Herald and the Miami Daily Metropolis. '

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Ruling after an emergency hearing on Fri, Judge Susan Illston of the Federal Dist Court for Northern California said the govt’s effort to lay off workers & shut down offices & programs created an urgent threat to scores of critical services.

#Congress set up a specific process for the #FederalGovernment to reorganize itself. The #unions & organizations behind the lawsuit have argued that #Trump does not have the #authority to make those decisions without the #LegislativeBranch.

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4/ "Trump had a point when he lionized factory work as a source of excellent wages and benefits for working people without degrees, but he conspicuously fails to mention that factory work was deadly, low-waged and miserable – until factory workers formed unions"
#unions
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/som

pluralistic.netPluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Rerum Novarum is supposed to be a condemnation of socialism, but not shocking that it wasn’t enough for the capitalist class.
vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en

on the contrary, they saw it as a threat. it’s because of Leo XIIIs liberalish views on #labor that many #unions across the Américas were organized inside catholic churches.

so calling back to the #pope who inspired millions into unionizing, should be intersting in the era of #AI

www.vatican.vaRerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) | LEO XIIIEncyclical Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII, 15 May 1891